The "Pores" project for removing mines in Yemen, affiliated with the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Action, seized 1,286 mines during the third week of January, laid by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias.
In a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the center stated that it had extracted 11 anti-personnel mines, 354 anti-tank mines, 13 explosive devices and 908 unexploded ordnance, during the third week of this month, noting that the total of what had been removed since the beginning of the project 124 A thousand and 268 mines were planted by the terrorist Houthi militias affiliated with Iran in the lands, schools and homes, and tried to hide them in various forms and ways, and a large number of children, women and the elderly were killed, whether by death, serious injury or amputation.
This comes at a time when a child was killed and another was wounded by a landmine explosion planted by the Houthi militia, in the "kilo 16" area east of the city of Hodeidah. Local sources confirmed that the mine explosion killed the child, Wajdi Abdullah (13 years), and seriously wounded the child, Sadiq Abdullah.
The sources indicated that the two children were going to herd sheep when the landmine exploded in them.
Militias have planted thousands of landmines and improvised explosive devices in residential neighborhoods, and highways in various areas under their control, and have caused thousands of casualties.
The total of what has been removed since the beginning of the "Pore" project is 124,286 mines laid by the Houthi militias.